Freestone County Non-Compliant Jail Report

Jail Name

Freestone County 

Report Date

03/13/2019 

Number of days

56 

Inspector

William T.Phariss 

Original Report

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Notes and Summary

• On the day of the inspection, it was observed that the last fire marshal inspection was performed on 2/8/2018 which is over one month past due.
• During the fire drill, it was determined that the smoke evacuation system did not engage automatically when the artificial smoke was introduced to the smoke detector head as required.
• No documentation could be provided by administration that jail staff are receiving the 60 minutes of suicide prevention training annually in accordance with the agency’s approved operation plan.
• During a review of observation logs, it was determined that jail staff are exceeding the required face-to-face 60 minute observation on a continual basis by as few as 1 minute
  up to 200 minutes.
• During a review of recreation logs, it was determined that inmates are not being offered recreation three times in a seven day period. The one hour timeframe is also being shortened with no documented explanation.

Violation Types

• Health Services - Chapter 273: Health Services
• Life Safety Rules
• Recreation And Exercise
• Supervision Of Inmates - Chapter 275.1

Freestone County Non-compliant Jail Reports